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How popular is “Chang” in the USA?

Number of people named “Chang” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Chang” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Chang” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Chang” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Chang” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Chang” by birth year

This chart shows how “Chang” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1940 5 0.000002171 5 -100%
1953 5 0.000001297 5 -100%
1956 5 0.000001213 5 -100%
1958 6 0.000001451 6 -100%
1959 5 0.000001203 5 -100%
1966 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 -100%
1976 6 0.000001977 6 -100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 -100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 -100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 -100%
1981 9 0.000002602 9 -100%
1982 17 0.000004846 5 12 -41%
1983 11 0.000003176 11 -100%
1984 10 0.000002866 10 -100%
1985 7 0.000001961 7 -100%
1986 14 0.000003936 14 -100%
1987 11 0.000003051 11 -100%
1988 13 0.000003518 13 -100%
1989 15 0.000003902 15 -100%
1990 13 0.000003289 13 -100%
1991 14 0.000003594 14 -100%
1992 15 0.000003905 15 -100%
1993 12 0.000003183 12 -100%
1994 16 0.000004304 16 -100%
1995 13 0.00000355 13 -100%
1996 13 0.000003564 13 -100%
1997 9 0.000002482 9 -100%
1998 11 0.000002991 11 -100%
1999 7 0.000001895 7 -100%
2000 6 0.000001587 6 -100%
2001 5 0.000001336 5 -100%
2004 8 0.000002094 8 -100%
2006 6 0.000001517 6 -100%

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